So tired of this framing. We get it, you don't like the government. So what?
If you're spreading lies about medicine because you distrust authority...
Well, first of all, you're dumb because you believe falsehoods.
But more importantly, you're a danger to my health, my friends and my families' health, and to your own health as well.
Why would we have any patience for this?
Your rugged self-important individualism is not worth more than any of that.
You appear to be thinking that you're taking some heroic stand on principle. Your principle is leading you astray. It makes you antisocial, a danger to your neighbors.
>We get it, you don't like the government. So what?
Well, if you don't trust the government, then the likelihood that you'll be willing to follow their "orders" is pretty low.
> But more importantly, you're a danger to my health, my friends and my families' health, and to your own health as well.
And __this__ response is exactly why people can become anti-vaxx without having a problem with medicine or science in general (which is the question being put forward by the OP). You're coming at it from a "the gov said its safe, so it's safe, and you're an idiot for not trusting the gov" (even though governments have shown themselves to be un-trustworthy many many times -- not in the area of vaccines necessarily -- but in other domains.
So this type of urging to "do it because we're all doing it because Uncle Sam said so" is highly counter productive.
svara|1 year ago
If you're spreading lies about medicine because you distrust authority...
Well, first of all, you're dumb because you believe falsehoods.
But more importantly, you're a danger to my health, my friends and my families' health, and to your own health as well.
Why would we have any patience for this?
Your rugged self-important individualism is not worth more than any of that.
You appear to be thinking that you're taking some heroic stand on principle. Your principle is leading you astray. It makes you antisocial, a danger to your neighbors.
insane_dreamer|1 year ago
Well, if you don't trust the government, then the likelihood that you'll be willing to follow their "orders" is pretty low.
> But more importantly, you're a danger to my health, my friends and my families' health, and to your own health as well.
And __this__ response is exactly why people can become anti-vaxx without having a problem with medicine or science in general (which is the question being put forward by the OP). You're coming at it from a "the gov said its safe, so it's safe, and you're an idiot for not trusting the gov" (even though governments have shown themselves to be un-trustworthy many many times -- not in the area of vaccines necessarily -- but in other domains.
So this type of urging to "do it because we're all doing it because Uncle Sam said so" is highly counter productive.